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to other parts it has to be ground over again 

 before it can be used. Over almost the whole 

 of the northern counties of England, and in 

 many cases in the midland and southern pro- 

 vinces, the children of the rich receive oatmeal 

 pudding and milk for breakfast in preference 

 to any other species of food ; but although a diet 

 the most suitable for the children of the la- 

 bouring man, it is wholly excluded from his 

 table. England can only manufacture and 

 cook oatmeal for the dogs and children of her 

 grandees ! 



There cannot be a doubt but that both parties, 

 English and Scotch, are very much prejudiced 

 in favour of their own peculiar mode of living, 

 without even stopping to reflect upon the 

 validity of the grounds which they have for 

 being so ; and that a medium between the two 

 extremes which they severally follow would 

 be much more favourable and nourishing for 

 either. Science undoubtedly recommends to 

 both the use of flour manufactured, not from 

 wheat exclusively, but from all our cereal and 

 leguminous plants cultivated for their seeds 

 according to their several merits ; and also the 

 consumption of animal and vegetable food, in 



